HT Bureau
GUWAHATI, Oct 26: BSE and NSE-listed, Vikas Lifecare Limited have announced its collaboration with three world-class institutions to share the research inputs and work on developing various viable materials like cellulose, lignin, and silica from rice husk. In this agro-circle project, the New Delhi-based company shook hands with the Indian Institute of Technology (BHU)-Varanasi and Sweden’s Stockholm University.
Other than this, the company has also partnered with renowned Swedish companies namely- Lignflow Technologies AB and Lixea Computer for the same purpose. The main aim of the Agro-Circle Project is to establish innovative value chain concepts for the production of circular materials from agro-industrial side-streams, the company said in a media release.
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Commenting on the development, the managing director of Vikas Lifecare and an eminent scientist, Dr. SK Dhawan said, “The objective of this collaboration is to develop a circular economy to achieve sustainability through production, recovery, reuse and sending back the product to its original form at the end of life, resulting in zero or negligible waste.”
Vikas Lifecare’s R&D team successfully achieved proof of concept while they established promising results for making Nano silica from rice husk for niche applications including making Silicon for blending with graphene as an electrode material and for making pallets with plastics.
